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Posted on 10/26/2012 7:17:53 AM PDT by SandyLynn
Just a thought..I'm obviously a Nervous Nellie! I was watching Fox and Friends this morning, and they were all over the fact that Hurricane Sandy may cause voting problems in the upcoming election. Does anyone here think that the Liar In Chief might use the storm as an excuse to postpone/cancel the election? I put NOTHING past this administration!
I suspect that if Philly gets hammered a local judge will order the polls to stay open an extra 8 hours in order to allow the Dems gotv to bus the winos, crackheads and the dead to the polls.
Glad to hear that.
You must not be a Mormon.
No... he is of evil... therefore he cannot embrace that which is good.
LLS
A well-researched article on this from yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2950228/posts
I will admit, the storm scares me a bit because the potential is there for power to be out even after the election. I hope that won’t depress GOP turnout.
Also, this could give Obama lots of free “disaster savior” publicity that could pump him in the polls.
But, I don’t think this will really help Obama most likely, nor will it hurt the election itself.
If it’s as bad as forecast, it could have serious impacts, but I do not see states postponing the election due to some lost power.
The storm will be coming in a week before election day.
Could have some major impacts on Pennsylvania and northern Virginia.
Its not the storm its the aftermath, it is just the power maybe out for several days to a couple weeks for a few million people, plus flooding in a lot of areas.
Umm, unless you are a member of the US House of Representatives, you aren't one of the "Electors" spoken of in Art II. And electors don't vote Nov 6. They vote after the Secretaries of State in the several states have certified the results of each state.
We vote for electors in the Electoral College. They vote for the President. That is the way it is done, and should be done.
Maine is one of two states....Nebraska is the other....that splits it’s electoral votes.
Romney is leading in northern Maine (the second congressional district). It would be a much bigger deal for the northeast if the storm hit a week later, on Nov. 6th.
I don’t expect New York or Massachusetts to go for Romney, but for what it’s worth I have a lot of relatives in both of those states and the overwhelming majority of them told me they are voting for Romney.
No.
But I do think it’s important for Romney voters to cast their ballots before the storm rolls in, just in case power outages & other storm related damages cause problems on election day.
I am deeply worried about the safety for our Dear Leader in the storm. I think he should hunker down in one of the guberment approved bomb proofed shelters till at least March for the storm to be over.
"The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States"
"choosing the electors" is what the citizens do when they vote. It is not the electors voting for POTUS
The power could be out for three weeks.
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